That is lovely @Tack to have your roses blooming so well near to where they can be admired. A strong argument for having somewhere under cover to keep some roses from getting rain or wind battered I would have thought.
Thanks @Fire. Quite a bit of afternoon sun then despite the north facing garden that sometimes gets a bad press!. My west facing garden has more dappled shade to cope with, but I understand paler roses tend to cope better with less sun than the darker roses. I am impressed at the rate yours has grown in the time.
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Well a greater selection of roses to choose from would be lovely but dangerous! The way climate change is going, I’m not so sure that would be the case @clematisdorset, but we’ll have to wait and see. The roses I mentioned get a maximum of 4hrs sun or even less if against my north-facing fence, but too much is a bad thing here because of the strength of the sun.
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..very wise indeed, and I won't be far behind.. I like to finish my gardening by mid Dec.. I have only 3 roses left to prune and they can be put on hold..
On the contrary, I love wandering round the garden after Christmas, eagerly searching for signs of the earliest snowdrops and dwarf irises. Hopefully my winter flowering clematis 'freckles' will be in bloom which attracts early bees, as will my winter flowering honeysuckle. Other winter delights are Iris Unguicularis, my orange scented witch hazel in February and winter jasmine which is blooming now.
Yes a daily wander around the garden is de rigueur chez moi... roses never go truly dormant so we can check on those little buds breaking, especially just after the shortest days I find..
This gets my back up... changing the name of a well known rose..
I have just noticed Trevor White's, whom we all love for their great roses, are marketing a rose as 'New' [to them], called 'Pompon des Princes'.. when in fact it's the old damask rose 'Ispahan', which was always sold under that name. They do at least put it in brackets, but even so it nearly caught me out..
The name 'Pompon des Princes' probably originates from the 1950's but I've not seen it sold here under this name before..
@Marlorena, Wikipaedia says Rosa 'Ispahan', also known as 'Rose d'Ispahan' and 'Pompon des Princes', so I don't think that Trevor White's have changed the name, just used a less common one. At least they mention Ispahan.
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Thanks @Fire. Quite a bit of afternoon sun then despite the north facing garden that sometimes gets a bad press!. My west facing garden has more dappled shade to cope with, but I understand paler roses tend to cope better with less sun than the darker roses. I am impressed at the rate yours has grown in the time.
Everything is definitely "winter" here now and I don't intend to set foot in the garden till Feb. Going to hibernate with the hedgehogs.😴🦔
I have only 3 roses left to prune and they can be put on hold..
So many lovely roses still in bloom, @tack..
'Scented Garden' thrives here in a north-west facing site, with some sun from the west late on.. flowers continuously.. fragrant..
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'Tottering by Gently'.. and 'Wild Rover' pics..
.yellow buds of 'Bring Me Sunshine' in front..
I have just noticed Trevor White's, whom we all love for their great roses, are marketing a rose as 'New' [to them], called 'Pompon des Princes'.. when in fact it's the old damask rose 'Ispahan', which was always sold under that name. They do at least put it in brackets, but even so it nearly caught me out..
The name 'Pompon des Princes' probably originates from the 1950's but I've not seen it sold here under this name before..
Anything to confuse ...